By PETER JACKSON
ENGLANDWorld Cup bolter Alex Dombrandt almost gave the game up because of two ‘dreadful incidents’ during his three-year apprenticeship in Wales.
Twice a victim of gratuitous violence playing for Cardiff Met University in the Welsh championship, Dombrandt had his jaw broken twice by punches from behind. Surgeons implanted three steel plates to repair the shattering effects of the first blow, a double fracture.
“Both were shocking incidents,’’ Danny Milton, Cardiff Met University’s director of rugby, told The Rugby Paper. “Both cases...